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Human Rights Institute Goldstone Fellowship
Spring 2008 Zohaib Rashid has been selected as the 2008 Richard Goldstone Intern at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
Biography: I was born in Kuwait on September 2nd, 1984. At the age of five, my family and I had to evacuate Kuwait because of the Gulf War. Since then I have moved eight times and I have lived in Pakistan, Bahrain and my family finally moved to the United States when I was thirteen years of age. When I first moved to the United States, I was not a proficient English speaker and had a rough transition during middle and high school. However, I found my academic passions at the University of Connecticut, where I have studied Philosophy, Political Science and Human Rights. Through my hard work and dedication at the University of Connecticut, I was awarded the highest academic honor bestowed upon undergraduates as a University Scholar. While at the University of Connecticut, I have held the office of treasurer for the Muslim Student Association, and I have been a member of The Golden Key and National Society for Colligate Scholars Honors Societies. Moreover, as a Community Assistant, I have been an active member of the University of Connecticut student residential life. Besides pursuing my academic goals, I have strived to be an upright citizen. I have interned at the Hartford Superior Court, working in the Public Defenders Office. I have also worked for a human rights NGO in Pakistan called the Young Social Reformers, where I helped organize a carnival to benefit dialysis patients. Moreover, I have been a Sergeant in the Connecticut Army National Guard since my freshman year of college and have participated in relief missions for Hurricane Katrina and have supported in Operation Iraqi Freedom, earning five medals during my tenure. I have been awarded the Richard Goldstone Fellowship for the coming semester, and in February of 2008, I will begin working at the International Criminal Tribunal for The Former Yugoslavia at The Hague. Moreover, I have applied for a Fulbright Scholarship to study Public International Law at Leiden University in The Netherlands. My future goals are to attend an eminent law school and earn a J.D. in International law. Eventually, I would like to represent the United States as an ambassador to the United Nations.
Richard Goldstone Internship at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The University of Connecticut Human Rights Institute announces a competition for graduating UConn seniors with a Human Rights Minor for the Richard Goldstone Internship at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. This six-month internship at the ICTY in The Hague, Netherlands, will provide supervised working experience in the Research Unit of the Office of the Prosecutor. The internship comes with $5000 funding towards accommodation and travel expenses. The selected student will still have to apply through the ICTY internship process.
Richard J. Goldstone Biography Richard J. Goldstone, 1959 B.A., 1962 LL.B. (Wits), practiced as an Advocate at the Johannesburg Bar. In 1980, he was made Judge of the Transvaal Supreme Court. In 1989, he was appointed Judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court. From July 1994 to October 2003, he was a Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. In the spring of 2005, he was the Henry Shattuck Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. From 15 August 1994 to September 1996, he served as the Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. From August 1999 until December 2001, he was the chairperson of the International Independent Inquiry on Kosovo that was established by Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson. In December 2001, he was appointed as the co-chairperson of the International Task Force on Terrorism that was established by the International Bar Association. He is presently the co-chairperson of the Human Rights Institute of the International Bar Association. From 1999 to 2003, he served as a member of the International Group of Advisers of the International Committee of the Red Cross. He is presently a member of the committee, chaired by Paul A. Volcker, appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to investigate allegations regarding the Iraq Oil for Food Program. Goldstone is the author of numerous articles on international humanitarian law. He has written forewords to several books, including "Martha Minow’s Beyond Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide" and "Mass Violence and War Crimes: The Legacy of Nuremberg", which examines the political and legal influence the Nuremberg trials have had over contemporary war crime proceedings. More recently, he has written about the challenge to individual human rights posed by counter-terror measures in R. A. Wilson, ed., "Human Rights in the 'War on Terror'".
2007 Julie Friedlander selected as the 2007 Richard Goldstone Internship at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Student selected for internship in The Hague
Friedlander, who will graduate in May, will spend six months in The Hague, Netherlands, working in the research unit of the Office of the Prosecutor. The internship comes with $5,000 funding toward accommodation and travel. Richard Goldstone, a former justice of the Supreme Court of South Africa, has endowed two six-month internships, beginning this year. Goldstone is a member of the Board of Overseers of UConn’s Human Rights Institute. “I’m extremely excited for the opportunity to do this internship,” Friedlander says. “I plan a career in human rights and international law, and the internship will help me narrow down exactly what I want to pursue.” Richard Wilson, Gladstein Distinguished Chair in Human Rights and director of the Human Rights Institute, says Friedlander “is one of the many talented students pursuing a human rights minor at the University. I am delighted that she will be representing UConn at the International Criminal Tribunal. It’s an exciting illustration of what students can do in an international justice setting with a minor in human rights.” Friedlander says her experience and commitment to justice began when she became involved in starting an Amnesty International chapter at her high school in Fairfield. She has continued to investigate human rights issues as sitting president of the UConn student chapter of Amnesty International. Throughout her undergraduate experience, Friedlander has served as a Student Ambassador for Human Rights with the UNESCO Chair of Comparative Human Rights. “Being an ambassador has been essential to my development in human rights education,” she says. “The in-depth study and analysis of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights has been particularly critical to furthering
my comprehension of human rights.” She has also taught in First Year Experience human rights classes at UConn on topics including international law, women and the United Nations, and human rights violations in Myanmar (formerly Burma). She served as a liaison between the UNESCO Chair of Comparative Human Rights and Lawyers without Borders, a globally-oriented volunteer group, assisting in the planning of an intergenerational conference on human rights, and spent last summer honing her skills at the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom’s United Nations office. Friedlander, who has taken classes including International Organizations and Law, History of Human Rights, and Comparative Perspectives on Human Rights, says she has been inspired by her courses and experience as a human rights minor. “My classes broadened my awareness of international human rights issues,” she says. As a complement to her studies, she assisted in research on Russian war crimes in Chechnya. That work involved reading human rights reports from groups such as Human Rights Watch and recording abuses. “My participation in that research helped me see the importance of investigating human rights abuses, particularly concerning violations of international law, and the need for justice to prosecute those responsible,” she says. “The importance of international law and upholding these principles resonate strongly with my personal dedication and passion to promoting human rights,” Friedlander adds. “I believe this internship will facilitate my growth as a human rights advocate.”
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